Hi Harry, you may try the software called ExPlain http://www.biobase.de/index.php?id=286
There is a free trial at: http://www.biobase.de/index.php?id=456 My team from Russia and Germany have developed it. Perhaps, you will like it. If you have any question dont hesitate to drop me a line. All the best, Alexander Kel Alexander Kel, PhD SVP R&D BIOBASE GmbH, Halchtersche Strasse 33 D-38304 Wolfenbuettel Phone: +49 (0) 5331-8584-41 Fax: +49 (0) 5331-8584-70 www.biobase.de [email protected] On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Harry Mangalam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This may be a difficult query for this group to answer as the > readership is canted heavily in the geek direction, but what gene > expression software are you and your users relying on for gene > expression and pathway analysis? > > I tilt heavily towards R/Bioconductor and other free software, so I'm > aware of the advantages of it, but we have non-commandline tool > researchers who are in need of tools they can use to examine the > results of gene expression studies. > > This is something of a no-win - those tools that are very easy to use > tend to hide the very complexity that the user has to address, and so > the 'ease of use' / 'ease of thought' tends to weaken an already iffy > analysis. > > That said, are there tools (commercial or free) that provide fairly > good tradeoffs between power and ease of use for a non-geek biologist > user. ie runs on Mac & Windows and is mostly GUI? (If you have > experience in introducing such users to R, I'd also be interested in > your experiences). > > Due to some aggressive pushing from the local SAS consulting group, we > are in the startup phase of a campus-wide, 1 year trial of > JMP/Genomics. JMP is a fairly cheap, nicely designed, multiplatform > GUI stats package from SAS. The Genomics part tho is an expensive > add-on that runs only on Windows and depends on an optional, even > more expensive Pathways package from InGenuity. The local research > community does not have a problem paying for such software if it > truly does work easily and well. If you have used it and have an > opinion or evaluation, I'd love to hear from you via email or phone. > > Harry > > -- > Harry Mangalam - Research Computing, NACS, E2148, Engineering Gateway, > UC Irvine 92697 949 824-0084(o), 949 285-4487(c) > --- > Good judgment comes from experience; > Experience comes from bad judgment. [F. Brooks.] > > _______________________________________________ > BBB mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb > -- _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
